1980 Canadian Grand Prix

  1980 Canadian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 13 of 14 in the 1980 Formula One season
Date	September 28, 1980
Official name	XIX Grand Prix Labatt du Canada
Location	Circuit Île Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	4.410 km (2.740 mi)
Distance	70 laps, 308.700 km (191.817 mi)
Weather	Cold and dry with temperatures reaching up to 11 °C (52 °F); wind speeds up to 15.9 kilometres per hour (9.9 mph)[1]
Pole position
Driver	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-Ford
Time	1:27.328
Fastest lap
Driver	Didier Pironi	Ligier-Ford
Time	1:28.769 on lap 62
Podium
First	Alan Jones	Williams-Ford
Second	Carlos Reutemann	Williams-Ford
Third	Didier Pironi	Ligier-Ford

The 1980 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 28 September 1980, at the Circuit Île Notre-Dame in Montreal, Canada. It was the thirteenth and penultimate race of the 1980 Formula One season. The race was the 19th Canadian Grand Prix and the third to be held in Montreal. The race was held over 70 laps of the 4.41-kilometre circuit for a total race distance of 309 kilometres.

Australian driver Alan Jones, driving a Williams FW07B, won his second consecutive Canadian Grand Prix, and coupled with the retirement of the Brabham BT49 of Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet due to the failure of its Cosworth DFV engine, this allowed Jones to secure the 1980 World Drivers' Championship. Jones became only the second Australian to claim the world championship, a title last won by Jack Brabham in 1966. It was also the first World Drivers' Championship for Williams Grand Prix Engineering, adding to their first Constructors' Championship, achieved two weeks earlier at the Italian Grand Prix.

The brief comeback of Vittorio Brambilla had come to an end with the Italian veteran retiring from Formula One. Alfa Romeo replaced him with someone younger and Andrea de Cesaris made his Grand Prix debut, as did teenage New Zealander Mike Thackwell. Thackwell stepped aboard a third Tyrrell 010 breaking the record as the youngest ever driver to start a Grand Prix, a record held for 19 years by the late Mexican teenager Ricardo Rodríguez. The record would stand for 29 years until broken by Jaime Alguersuari in 2009.

Piquet qualified on pole from Jones but used a car in fragile qualifying specification to do it. At the start Jones outlaunched Piquet but the pair refused to compromise at the first turn and the two touched,^[2][3] triggering a multi-car pile-up. The collision involved Jean-Pierre Jarier (Tyrrell 010), Derek Daly (Tyrrell 010), Emerson Fittipaldi (Fittipaldi F8), Keke Rosberg (Fittipaldi F8), Mario Andretti (Lotus 81), Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari 312T5) and Jochen Mass (Arrows A3). Piquet, Fittipaldi, Villeneuve, Andretti and Mass restarted in spare cars, in Piquet's case his fragile qualifying car and Rosberg had his car repaired. Daly was out as was Thackwell as Jarier commandeered his Tyrrell 010. At the restart Jones led before a storming Piquet took the lead until his qualifying specification Cosworth DFV inevitably failed.^[4] Two laps later and Jean-Pierre Jabouille crashed his Renault RE20 heavily, seriously injuring his legs. Jabouille had to be cut from the car.

Jones took up the lead again until Pironi forced his way into a lead which was clouded over a jumped start for which he was eventually assigned a 60-second penalty. Pironi took the chequer but would be classified third behind Jones and Reutemann. Alain Prost could have been third or even second until a suspension failure saw his McLaren M30 crash. Watson was ahead of Reutemann as well when he spun and finished fourth in his McLaren. Local hero Villeneuve claimed fifth for Ferrari on a dismal weekend that saw outgoing World Champion Jody Scheckter fail to qualify his Ferrari 312T5. The final point was claimed by Héctor Rebaque in his Brabham BT49 as Jacques Laffite ran out of fuel in his Ligier JS11/15 in the closing stages.^[2]

First and second in the championship were decided with the 1980 United States Grand Prix still to come, but third was theoretically open with Laffite eight points behind Reutemann. Second place in the constructors' championship was still open with Brabham just five points behind Ligier.

Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Alan Jones	Williams-Ford	70	1:46:45.53	2	9
2	28	Carlos Reutemann	Williams-Ford	70	+15.54 secs	5	6
3	25	Didier Pironi	Ligier-Ford	70	+19.07 secs	3	4
4	7	John Watson	McLaren-Ford	70	+30.98 secs	7	3
5	2	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	70	+55.23 secs	22	2
6	6	Héctor Rebaque	Brabham-Ford	69	+1 Lap	10	1
7	3	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Tyrrell-Ford	69	+1 Lap	15
8	26	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Ford	68	Out of fuel	9
9	21	Keke Rosberg	Fittipaldi-Ford	68	+2 Laps	6
10	12	Elio de Angelis	Lotus-Ford	68	+2 Laps	17
11	30	Jochen Mass	Arrows-Ford	67	+3 Laps	21
12	14	Jan Lammers	Ensign-Ford	66	+4 Laps	19
Ret	8	Alain Prost	McLaren-Ford	41	Suspension	12
Ret	16	René Arnoux	Renault	39	Brakes	23
Ret	15	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Renault	25	Suspension/Accident	13
Ret	5	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-Ford	23	Engine	1
Ret	11	Mario Andretti	Lotus-Ford	11	Engine	18
Ret	22	Andrea de Cesaris	Alfa Romeo	8	Engine	8
Ret	31	Eddie Cheever	Osella-Ford	8	Fuel System	14
Ret	20	Emerson Fittipaldi	Fittipaldi-Ford	8	Gearbox	16
Ret	23	Bruno Giacomelli	Alfa Romeo	7	Chassis	4
Ret	29	Riccardo Patrese	Arrows-Ford	6	Accident	11
Ret	4	Derek Daly	Tyrrell-Ford	0	Accident	20
Ret	43	Mike Thackwell	Tyrrell-Ford	0	Car commandeered by Jarier	24
DNQ	9	Marc Surer	ATS-Ford
DNQ	1	Jody Scheckter	Ferrari
DNQ	50	Rupert Keegan	Williams-Ford
DNQ	51	Kevin Cogan	Williams-Ford
Source:[5]

Lap leaders

• Alan Jones 49 laps (1-2 and 24-70)
• Nelson Piquet 21 laps (3-23)

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Alan Jones 62 2 Nelson Piquet 54 3 Carlos Reutemann 40 (43) 4 Jacques Laffite 32 5 René Arnoux 29

Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Williams-Ford 105 2 Ligier-Ford 60 3 Brabham-Ford 55 4 Renault 38 5 Tyrrell-Ford 12

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Only the best 5 results from the first 7 races and the best 5 results from the last 7 races counted towards the Drivers' Championship. If different to Championship points, total points scored are shown in parentheses.

References

1. "Weather information for the "1980 Canadian Grand Prix"". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
2. "Grand Prix Results: Canadian GP, 1980". GP Encyclopedia. Inside F1, Inc. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDc3DbUISS0
4. Jones, Bruce (1998). "The 1980s". The Complete Encyclopedia of Formula One (First ed.). London: Carlton Books. p. 52. ISBN 1 85868 515 X.
5. "1980 Canadian Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2015.